Two daft truck/lorry questions

[4key]

Other things to factor in is the type of vehicle that you mainly see on the hard shoulder, mostly building work related vehicles. Due to spending a lot of time off road most bulkers use part worn tyres, 'tipper tyres' are normally anything thats just the right side of legal.

The amount of miles we do is quite significant too, I have a 61 plate that turned up just after christmas, its now on 88000k. Yesterday in 24 hours it did dartford - east grinstead - sheerness maidstone - sheerness - canterbury - sheerness - dover - sheerness -dartford - ipswich - sheerness - ipswich - dartford... that happens 24 hrs a day 5 days a week. Weve had 3 new tyres since weve had this vehicle but most of our off road work is in quarrys on sand.

[philmots]

The tyres get some serious stick.. Although I've never heard of anyone having a blowout at our place, although 35T is a more common weight.

Our tyres are also changed at 3mm on units and trailers. Legal is 1mm. So they're not ran to the ground. Infact, they probably sell em on to tipper wagons!

[Panda76]

Concrete surfaces tend to rip them too. Pretty much all of our depots have concrete surfaces,hard work for the tyres.More so the midlfts when fully loaded,starts ripping chunks out the middle of them.Normal turns too,not spinning them on a penny piece. (44t)